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[Member marcelocripe]

Dear Eismckwadraat19,

Thanks for sharing the result of the inxi -Frz command. Now other people will be able to help you more easily.

I really appreciate your helpfulness and patience.
I followed your advice and both the touchpad and the wifi are working now 🙂

I’m glad I can help and that you don’t give up testing the newest kernel. If the official ISO with kernel 4.19 didn’t work, I’d still have a gift that Xecure (you’ll know about it) built, the ISO pseudo-antiX-19.3_x64.iso.

The helpfulness on this forum is really great.
It gives me inspiration to help out, perhaps with translation work.

You will be very welcome to the team of volunteer translators that is being formed. Please see the private message for guidelines on how to participate in translations. Thanks!

5: following error message: failed to format required partitions

I have already experienced this message, before proceeding copy your installation data with the 4.9 kernel. I managed to solve this using GParted, go to Menu > Applications > System > GParted, enter the password “demo” (without quotes), in the down arrow of GParted select your disk ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: HCG8e size: 58.25 GiB, select one of the partitions, click on the trash can icon, repeat this procedure on all, on the swap partition you will need to right-click and click on the “Disable Swap” option to then be able to delete the partition. When you delete all partitions create as many partitions as you want, for example one to hold / (or rootantiX), another partition to hold /home and the third linux-swap or if you don’t want to separate the operating system (/ or rootantiX) of your data (/home) on different partitions, just create two partitions, one for (/ or rootantiX) and one for linux-swap. When preparing the partitions click on the letter “V” icon to apply the changes. When you receive information that all changes have been successfully made, close GParted and return to the antiX installer.

‘Regular install using entire disk’ select and put the ‘use disk’ on the internal memory (was on the usb stick)

I don’t like to use this option, I prefer and recommend the option “Using a custom disk layout”, in the screen “Choose Partitions” you can indicate which partition will install antiX (/ or rootantiX) and which will be (/home) and swap. It depends on your choice.

the translation program you use is perfect, I understand everything properly.

I am glad that these programs are allowing people to communicate even without knowing another language.

My greetings.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese language)

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Dear Eismckwadraat19,

Obrigado por compartilhar o resultado do comando inxi -Frz. Agora outras pessoas poderão te ajudar mais facilmente.

I really appreciate your helpfulness and patience.
I followed your advice and both the touhpad and the wifi are working now 🙂

Eu fico contente em poder ajudar e por você não desistir fazendo o teste com o kernel mais novo. Se a ISO oficial com kernel 4.19 não funcionasse, ainda teria um presente que o Xecure (você ainda vai conhecê-lo) construiu, a ISO pseudo-antiX-19.3_x64.iso.

The helpfulness on this forum is really great.
It gives me inspiration to help out, perhaps with translation work.

Você será muito bem-vindo a equipe de tradutores voluntários que está se formando. Por favor, veja na mensagem particular as orientações sobre como participar das traduções. Obrigado!

5: following error message: failed to format required partitions

Eu já passei por esta mensagem, antes de continuar copie os seus dados da instalação com o kernel 4.9. Eu consegui resolver isso utilizando o GParted, acessem o Menu > Aplicativos > Sistema > GParted, digite a senha “demo” (sem aspas), na seta para baixo do GParted selecione o seu disco ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: HCG8e size: 58.25 GiB, selecione uma das partições, clique no ícone da lata de lixo, repita este procedimento em todas, na partição swap você precisará clicar com o botão direito e clicar na opção “Desativar Swap” para depois conseguir apagar a partição. Quando você excluir todas as partições crie as partições que você quiser, por exemplo, uma para receber o / (ou rootantiX), outra partição para receber o /home e a terceira linux-swap ou se não quiser separar o sistema sistema operacional (/ ou rootantiX) dos seus dados (/home) em partições diferentes, crie apenas duas partições, sendo uma para o (/ ou rootantiX) e outra para linux-swap. Quando preparar as partições clique no ícone de uma letra “V” para aplicar as alterações. Quando você receber a informação que todas as alterações foram feitas com sucesso, feche o GParted e volte para o instalador do antiX.

‘Regular install using entire disk’ selected and put the ‘use disk’ on the internal memory (was on the usb stick)

Eu não gosto de usar esta opção, eu prefiro e recomendo a opção “Using a custom disk layout”, na tela “Choose Partitions” você pode indicar qual partição irá instalar o antiX (/ ou rootantiX) e qual ficará (/home) e swap. Isso depende da sua escolha.

the translation program you use is perfect, I understand everything properly.

Eu fico contente que estes programas estejam permitindo que as pessoas possam se comunicar, mesmo sem conhecer outro idioma.

Meus cumprimentos.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em idioma Português do Brasil)

[Member Eismckwadraat19]

The laptop information from the terminal is:

$ inxi -Frz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.19.184-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.3.4 Distro: antiX-19.4_x64-full Grup Yorum 23 May 2021 
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: MEDION product: E3222 MD62450 v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: MEDION model: YS13G serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends 
  v: GeminiLake_YS13G_V1.0.29 date: 08/12/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.2 Wh condition: 42.2/42.2 Wh (100%) 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Celeron N4100 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  Speed: 1614 MHz min/max: 800/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 987 2: 1076 
  3: 1008 4: 975 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 605 driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 600 (Geminilake 2x6) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.184-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 65.47 GiB used: 46.9 MiB (0.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: HCG8e size: 58.25 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler G3 
  size: 7.22 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 2.88 GiB used: 43.8 MiB (1.5%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  dev: /dev/mmcblk0p4 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main nonfree nosystemd
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 174 Uptime: 3m Memory: 3.68 GiB used: 570.2 MiB (15.1%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36

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Fidel Castro

Hi,

I have swapped from good old Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to Antix 19.4 .
I have basic knowledge of Linux, but I am no nerd.
I understand simple english.

My question:
In Firefox (in Ubuntu) I can use “Enable DNS over HTTPS”.
Also, I can use in Ubuntu (and Puppy Linux) nameserver 8.8.8.8 .

I need this to avoid country-specific blocking of webpages.

Doing this has NO effect in AntiX.

Why?
What can I do to solve that problem?

I don’t understand your earlier discussions with lots of cryptic data.

If you need details, I will tell you.
I have old Notebook (Dell Latitude D410), 32-bit single-core,
with installation of your full ISO image.

Can you help me, please?

Thanks a lot

Dear Friends,

I recently tried to install 19.4 on a Acer Aspire laptop, one I have been using for about 2 years with 17.4 installed. The 17.4 install went through correctly and the laptop has performed ever since as expected. This laptop does not have a separate hard drive, instead it has 64mb soldered directly on the mainboard, therefore has a fixed configuration.

Because I wanted to avail myself of the 19.4 facility to have the boot, root and home directories on separate partitions, I had to delete all the existing partitions and create the new ones according to a rough idea I had regarding sizing and placement, which on this laptop may well have been far from ideal.

The install failed at format root partition. The screenshots attached give the partition picture and details, the usage I specified to the installer, the fail message and the option I was offered a regular install using the entire disk. This option I did try, it also failed but with a long hang attempting to format something, I failed to observe what but can repeat that if required.

I tried to create an extended partition in the first instance, to contain swap root and home partitions as logical, but Gparted would not allow this, these options being ‘greyed’ out of the menu. I only tried this because I thought 4 physical partitions may be one too many. Maybe this is indeed the case? I am too inexperienced to say.

Thanks in advance for all suggestions, whether they lead to a solution or not.

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   format_fail_root.jpg
   

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   offers_regular_install.jpg
   

[Member Wallon]

If it helps, here is the complete laptop info;

System:    Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp 
           root=UUID=3cafe92e-aadc-43da-b08c-f785f80ec609 ro gfxsave quiet 
           Desktop: IceWM 2.7.0 vt: 7 dm: SLiM 1.3.6 
           Distro: antiX-19.3_x64-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: F3U v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: F3U v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 208 
           date: 07/18/2007 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 7.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 7.4/51.3 Wh (14.5%) volts: 12.4 min: 11.1 
           model: ASUSTEK F3---24 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Full 
Memory:    RAM: total: 1.91 GiB used: 756.7 MiB (38.8%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-55 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K8 rev.F+ 
           family: F (15) model-id: 68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: N/A cache: L2: 512 KiB 
           bogomips: 7182 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/1800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
           Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch apic clflush cmov cmp_legacy cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 
           cx8 de extapic extd_apicid fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce mmx mmxext msr 
           mtrr nopl nx pae pat pge pni pse pse36 rdtscp rep_good sep sse sse2 svm syscall tsc vme 
           vmmcall 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 01:05.0 chip-ID: 1002:791f class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Microdia PC Camera (SN9C201 + OV9650) type: USB driver: gspca_sn9c20x 
           bus-ID: 1-7:4 chip-ID: 0c45:624f class-ID: 0000 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: loaded: radeon display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x211mm (13.3x8.3") 
           s-diag: 398mm (15.7") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS res: 1280x800 hz: 60 dpi: 98 size: 331x207mm (13.0x8.1") 
           diag: 390mm (15.4") 
           OpenGL: renderer: ATI RS690 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: b800 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: global 
           IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr scope: global 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k 
           v: kernel port: b800 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:001c class-ID: 0200 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:   Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 140.44 GiB used: 7.99 GiB (5.7%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST9120822AS size: 111.79 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 1.5 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> 
           rev: C scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 
           size: 28.65 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> 
           rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
           SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: MATSHITA model: DVD-RAM UJ-850S rev: 1.22 
           dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw 
           Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram 
           state: running 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 24.41 GiB size: 24.03 GiB (98.43%) used: 7.98 GiB (33.2%) fs: ext2 
           dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: rootantiX 
           uuid: 3cafe92e-aadc-43da-b08c-f785f80ec609 
           ID-2: /media/wallon/DATAWIN raw-size: 2.24 GiB size: 2.23 GiB (99.80%) used: 2.2 MiB (0.1%) 
           fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 label: DATAWIN uuid: 0AE6-1BAB 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 6 MiB (0.3%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb1 
           maj-min: 8:17 label: SWAP uuid: 8e0bee22-319d-44fd-95ed-db7522af6734 
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 6.84 GiB fs: vfat label: RECOVERY uuid: 1489-5F00 
           ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 67.07 GiB fs: ntfs label: VistaOS 
           uuid: A4448C70448C46D0 
           ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 1 KiB fs: <superuser required> label: N/A uuid: N/A 
           ID-4: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 37.88 GiB fs: ntfs label: DATA 
           uuid: 7458901B588FDA6E 
USB:       Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 1-1:2 info: SanDisk Ultra Flair type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage 
           interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 224mA chip-ID: 0781:5591 class-ID: 0806 
           serial: <filter> 
           Device-2: 1-7:4 info: Microdia PC Camera (SN9C201 + OV9650) type: Video 
           driver: gspca_sn9c20x interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
           chip-ID: 0c45:624f class-ID: 0000 
           Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-3: 2-2:2 info: Ortek Targus Number Keypad ports: 3 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           power: 100mA chip-ID: 05a4:9837 class-ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 2-2.2:3 info: Logitech Optical Tilt Wheel Mouse type: Mouse 
           driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA 
           chip-ID: 046d:c019 class-ID: 0301 
           Device-2: 2-2.3:4 info: Ortek Targus Number Keypad (Composite Device) 
           type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           power: 48mA chip-ID: 05a4:9862 class-ID: 0300 
           Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-6: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
           Hub-7: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: apt: 1753 lib: 812 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http: //it.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
           1: deb http: //deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http: //ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http: //security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eid.list 
           1: deb http: //files.eid.belgium.be/debian/ buster main
           2: deb http: //files2.eid.belgium.be/debian/ buster main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http: //dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list 
           1: deb https: //deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
           1: deb http: //repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Processes: CPU top: 5 of 169 
           1: cpu: 50.3% command: chrome pid: 14996 mem: 143.7 MiB (7.3%) 
           2: cpu: 33.0% command: yad pid: 15400 mem: 26.8 MiB (1.3%) 
           3: cpu: 14.0% command: app-select started by: python3 pid: 15386 mem: 45.7 MiB (2.3%) 
           4: cpu: 7.7% command: google-chrome-stable pid: 14618 mem: 237.2 MiB (12.1%) 
           5: cpu: 5.7% command: chrome pid: 15200 mem: 159.7 MiB (8.1%) 
           Memory top: 5 of 169 
           1: mem: 237.2 MiB (12.1%) command: google-chrome-stable pid: 14618 cpu: 7.7% 
           2: mem: 159.7 MiB (8.1%) command: chrome pid: 15200 cpu: 5.7% 
           3: mem: 143.7 MiB (7.3%) command: chrome pid: 14996 cpu: 50.3% 
           4: mem: 134.8 MiB (6.9%) command: chrome pid: 14746 cpu: 1.3% 
           5: mem: 125.0 MiB (6.4%) command: chrome pid: 14660 cpu: 1.0% 
Info:      Processes: 169 Uptime: 1h 51m wakeups: 2 Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
           tool: service Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.0.3-release 
           inxi: 3.3.06 

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System:
Kernel: 5.10.27-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
Desktop: Openbox 3.6.1
Distro: antiX-bullseye-b1-runit_x64-full Grup Yorum 10 June 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: XPS 13 9350 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 07TYC2 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: Dell
v: 1.7.0 date: 01/16/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 22.9 Wh (46.8%) condition: 48.9/55.5 Wh (88.1%)
volts: 7.4 min: 7.6 model: SMP DELL JHXPY53 status: Discharging
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse charge: Normal
status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-6200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake rev: 3 cache: L2: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 19200
Speed: 2701 MHz min/max: 400/2800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2701 2: 2761
3: 2795 4: 2741
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-5:4
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1368×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.27-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4350 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell
driver: brcmfmac v: kernel port: f040 bus-ID: 3a:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM2045A0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-3:3
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: not found
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 12.62 GiB (5.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: PM951 NVMe 256GB
size: 238.47 GiB temp: 24.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 90.17 GiB used: 7.06 GiB (7.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-2: /home size: 135.04 GiB used: 5.56 GiB (4.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: 26.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 213 Uptime: 3m Memory: 7.41 GiB used: 1.6 GiB (21.6%)
Init: runit runlevel: 2 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1635 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

[Member olsztyn]

Wallon wrote:

Please stop talking about blacklisting. It is very offensive to the African people.

For a simple solution to such demands I am OK if we just swap the meaning of Blacklist and Whitelist. Therefore Whitelist would mean rejects or non-compliant or whatever other negative connotation intended…
This solution should be satisfactory to demands, although monetary reparations for historical use of the questioned terminology would be still outstanding…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by olsztyn.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member ventus]

Hi

I just tried this Palemoone. No, it just fills the RAM and it seems as if Palemoon doesn’t have a browser cache or the algorithms are totally bad. When I want to play a video, the RAM load goes up to almost 100% and the swap is also filled, WITHOUT the video starting. No chance with 1GB RAM!

If antiX is interested in offering users with low RAM computers a good and modern browser, then there is no way around Opera! I don’t know what these people are doing, but the result is impressive! No other browser handles the memory and cache so efficiently! With a swappiness of 40, I can open up to 8 tabs without long waiting times (5-10 seconds). Show me the browser that can do that with 1GB RAM and a swapfile of 1GB!

If you want to test it, I’ll try to send my Opera settings here as an attachment. Otherwise you have to test yourself.

https://ufile.io/nf6b99x6

[Member ventus]

To the problems with Opera and also Vivaldi:

It looks like they will find the way to play all videos again. In Vivaldi it is already done, Opera will follow. Up to then it is possible to run Opera as snap, this is working fine on Debian. I have not yet tested it on antiX and don’t know, if snap is here possible.

But I am happy, that I can go on working with Opera, as it gives me the best result with low RAM! Of course it needs the correct settings for the swapfile and the perfect settings in Opera.

[Member olsztyn]

anticapitalista wrote:

I have been using live-usb with connman controlling wifi all day (including rebooting) without issues.
Are you sure it’s not something with your connection?
Or with the wifi driver?

I can never certify ‘I am sure’, considering these various factors in the middle. I am just judging on the base what seems logical considering the following:
– My internet, router provide rock solid high speed service.
– I am simultaneously working on three laptops on my desk. First – non-antiX Linux running Network Manager (rock solid network), Second – antiX 19.4 with Connman – no network issues, Third laptop – antiX 21 B2, with Connman with reported issues, now attempting Network Manager not successful yet…

However all three laptops are Thinkpads different models, so I cannot say for sure the Connman issues on the third one (Thinkpad X61) are not driver related, if this answers your questions. I will swap laptops and run antiX 21 B2 on different Thinkpad model to see if experience repeats…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member norm]

Xecure:

1. 15 yrs old 300 GB Seagate external USB HD 2.0 > insert into LinuxMint20 > open Mint GParted > Extr 300GB HD create a primary ext4 partition (for antiX-Persistence) + create a swap partition > eject 300GB HD. (I had bad luck with antix21-b2 live USB stick to operate GParted).

2. LinuxMint20 > download antix21-b2.iso from AntiX website > check iso integrity 256 with GtkHash > clamtk virus scan > burn iso into 12 GB usb2.0 stick using Linux Mint “create USB iso” application > shut off computer.

3. load computer from usb stick > antix loads 1st time from live 12 gb USB stick > select legacy bios option > F5 select “p-static-root option > insert 300GB USB HD > follow screen instructions > select 300 GB USB HD (sdd2) for antiX-Persistence device > assign secure passwords > make some minor noticable changes to screen to differentiate from live boot session (ex change wallpaper, connect to wifi , install some minor apps etc) > shut off machine.

4. Load 12 gb stick , then 300GB USB > F5 p-static-root select > normal boot> Antix finds p-static-root device > machine loads properly (new wallpaper , wi-fi, new minor apps etc ) are all loaded. All further additional new changes (new software installations, updates, upgrades etc) are properly stored in sdd2.

So far so good, when I want to install a new “Persistence” test folder as root, I get ‘error exit status 1’ message.

Christophe:

I thought I may need two different persistence devices for two different machine hardware configuration purposes, I am not sure how Antix works. That’s the only reason.
For Puppy, I have only one universal persistent USB stick which works for every machine.

Thank you all

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Regarding System76, I’ve never owned one, and yes, they are not cheap, but a friend of mine had one and he had excellent service with it, and he was always able to install whatever version of Linux he wanted to use.

This mini line: https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat is a bit more affordable than their other models, but it’s still over $500.

Regarding the Thinkpad X220, Amazon.com has two options currently priced between $240-250.

Ebay even has one for under $100, though I recently had an unpleasant experience with a used smartphone that had a bad display; at least I was able to return it.

I’ve used Swappa with positive results for phones. I bought a computer for my wife this week through Amazon and received it less than 48 hours later and it was priced well under $500.

I’ve dealt with Tiger Direct in the past; they appear to have a few reasonable deals well under $500 too
https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Lprice=200&Hprice=499.99&CatId=4935

--
Brian Masinick

[Member bertil]

Sorry, here is some more info:

I get theese errors:

Err:3 http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster InRelease                                                                      
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG DB36CDF3452F0C20 antiX (antix repo) <repo@antixlinux.com>

and

E: Repository 'http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable-updates' to 'oldstable-updates'

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
282 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG DB36CDF3452F0C20 antiX (antix repo) <repo@antixlinux.com>
W: Failed to fetch http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster/dists/buster/InRelease  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG DB36CDF3452F0C20 antiX (antix repo) <repo@antixlinux.com>
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

and more like that.

inxi -Fxz -r gives me

System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 Distro: antiX-17.1_x64-full Heather Heyer 17 March 2018 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20175 v: Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: INVALID v: 31900003WIN8 STD MLT serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO v: 66CN55WW 
           date: 02/28/2013 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 23.5 Wh condition: 23.8/49.3 Wh (48%) model: Lenovo IdeaPad Mocca2 status: Charging 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-3227U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 15164 
           Speed: 1537 MHz min/max: 800/1900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1537 2: 968 3: 1882 4: 1631 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Message: No Device data found. 
           IF-ID-1: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 133.70 GiB used: 6.33 GiB (4.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZMPC128HBFU-000L1 size: 119.24 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: TransMemory size: 14.45 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.87 GiB used: 6.33 GiB (80.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main nonfree
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 176 Uptime: 22m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 602.9 MiB (7.7%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36 

[Member Robin]

Short rapport about my first impressions of antiX21-beta2 Live from USB (intentionally without persistence for now) on a 32 bit Pentium M Notebook:

To put it in a nutshell: Great! Many thanks to anticapitalista and the dev team!

Boots straight up to desktop. This time the display is way better than in the Versions before, no blurry letters, colours are fine and well saturated this time. So the nouveau driver seems to have got some improvement meanwhile. But, and now comes the inevitable »but«, it seems to produce much more CPU load than I was used from antiX 17.4.1 and 19, especially while moving windows around by mouse, CPU goes up to 100%. I’ll have to check whether this can be solved by fine tuning the nouveau driver settings, or whether this can only be helped by installing original nvidia driver again. I’ll start another thread for this detail next days.

In this place I’d like to plead for an additional entry in boot parameter selection:
linux=<width>x<height>
This cheatcode is not wellknown, not even documented, (At least I don’t know of, and I believe It isn’t even in our wiki still). And then it is the equivalent to grub gfxpayload entry, which allows to set a monitor/display and screen setting in case the needed configuration was not determined correctly and automatically. I’ve spent some hours on testing different methods of setting the correct values from within a blurry desktop using first ARandR from antiX control center and then xrandr in a console window. All in vain. It was literally impossible to fix this from within antiX, so this bootcode is of real importance, worthy to get an entry in boot screen. I’m sure I’m not the single person seeing a very poor desktop without this.

This is all the technical data I’ve collected until now:

$ inxi -Fxzr
System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.7.0 
  Distro: antiX-21-b2_386-full Grup Yorum 6 September 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Other-vm? System: Notebook product: RIM2000 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Notebook model: RIM2000 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: RIM00F0A 
  date: 05/27/2005 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0 Wh condition: N/A volts: N/A model: ARIMA LI4403A 
  status: Unknown 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan 
  rev: 8 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: nx pae sse sse2 bogomips: 2128 
  Speed: 1067 MHz min/max: 800/1733 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1067 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV43M [GeForce Go 6600] vendor: Rioworks driver: N/A 
  bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nouveau,vesa 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting resolution: 1024x768 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Rioworks driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
  Device-2: Philips s SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder 
  vendor: Animation driver: saa7134 v: 0, 2, 17 bus-ID: 06:03.0 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet vendor: Rioworks 
  driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200 
  v: 1.2.2kmprq port: 2000 bus-ID: 06:08.0 
  IF: eth1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: irda0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 151.75 GiB used: 29.42 GiB (19.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9100823A size: 93.16 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk size: 58.59 GiB 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 184 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/sda9 
Sensors:
  Message: No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured? 
Repos:
  Packages: 1563 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 140 Uptime: 3h 5m Memory: 1.97 GiB used: 1020.7 MiB (50.7%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 
  inxi: 3.3.06 

And here I’ll append some problematic details from dmesg output of first boot:

$ dmesg
(...)
[    0.009102] Spectre V1 : Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
[    0.009105] Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
[    0.009107] Spectre V2 : Spectre v2 / SpectreRSB mitigation: Filling RSB on context switch
[    0.009108] Speculative Store Bypass: Vulnerable
[    0.009109] L1TF: Kernel not compiled for PAE. No mitigation for L1TF
[    0.009135] MDS: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode

[    1.518351] Warning! fotg210_hcd should always be loaded before uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd, not after

[   20.241771] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI(VGA) defines _DOD but not _DOS
[   20.241840] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[   20.242496] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input7
[   20.242540] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI(VGA1) defines _DOD but not _DOS
[   20.242588] ACPI: Video Device [VGA1] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[   20.242664] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input8

[   20.617976] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x00000000000011B0-0x00000000000011BF conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001180-0x00000000000011BB (\GPIO) (20160831/utaddress-238)
[   20.617987] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[   20.617988] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001180-0x00000000000011AF conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001180-0x00000000000011BB (\GPIO) (20160831/utaddress-238)
[   20.617994] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[   20.617995] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich

[   21.735961] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 05.43.02.49.18
[   21.736185] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size
[   21.736188] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: imem: unable to map PRAMIN BAR
[   21.736194] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: imem ctor failed, -14
[   21.736202] nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -14

And now some of my attempts of fixing the resolution problem from within antiX:
– Delay of ca. 60 seconds after graphics mode is supposed to get switched to correct resolution (immedieatly before X-desktop should come up), screen stays black, but backlight stays “on”. Finally desktop appears.
– Desktop has wrong resolution, and no means to switch to correct resolution:
– Graphic display of is slow and generally delayed, movement of windows with mouse pointer is scattering and heavily delayed, causing 100% CPU load.
(looks like everything is software rendered by CPU instead of GPU.)
– Control center –> Session –> Screen Resolution (ARandR) does only show
1024×768
800×600
640×480
The correct Resolution of 1440×900 is missing.
Using xrandr on command line shows same result:

$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768       0.00* 
   800x600        0.00  
   640x480        0.00  

Trying to correct this problem by adding the missing resolution following the default steps also fails:

	xrandr --newmode "1440x900_60.00"  106.47  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 901 904 932  -HSync +Vsync
	xrandr --addmode default "1440x900_60.00"
	xrandr --output default --mode "1440x900_60.00"
		xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
		xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed

A short flicker at screen, but resolution remains unchanged.
Now again:

$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1440 x 900
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768       0.00* 
   800x600        0.00  
   640x480        0.00  
   1440x900_60.00  60.00  

$ xrandr --output default --mode "1440x900_60.00"
	xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
	xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed

$ xrandr --listmonitors
	xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
	Monitors: 1
		0: +default 1024/271x768/203+0+0  default

$ xrandr --setmonitor "crtc 0" 1440/370x900/230+0+0 default
	output list default
	add monitor default
	output name default
	xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
	
$ xrandr --listmonitors
	xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
	Monitors: 1
		0: crtc 0 1440/370x900/230+0+0  default

$ xrandr --output default --mode "1440x900_60.00"
	xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
	xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed

Next thing: What does all the dmesg stuff about vulnerabilities mean? I’ve believed antiX was safe in this concern. Can something be done to ship antiX 21 safer (or do I misinterpret this output?) Here is what inxi reported:

$ inxi -Ca
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan 
  family: 6 model-id: D (13) stepping: 8 microcode: 20 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
  flags: nx pae sse sse2 bogomips: 2128 
  Speed: 1067 MHz min/max: 800/1733 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1067 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
  Type: l1tf status: Vulnerable 
  Type: mds 
  status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
  Type: meltdown status: Vulnerable 
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 
  mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 

Next observation:
We see still an 3.17.x version of Claws Mail in antiX 21. This is very sad, since it doesn’t work anymore with most email providers, who meanwhile mandatory expect OAUTH procedure for accessing the account via POP/IMAP. This feature has been added in Claws Mail 3.18.0 / 4.0.0 only, so antiX 21 should really ship one of these versions, if possible.

Another thing I have to check in detail is: Playing video on any of the bundled players caueses 100% CPU load even when using material of very poor resolution, and in one case even a complete system lock while playing, I had to hard reset. Maybe this is somehow connected to the nouveau driver, since I have never seen this behaviour on any antiX before while using original nvidia drivers on 17.4.1 and 19. Maybe this can also get helped by fine tuning the driver settings of nouveau.

And now @skidoo : zzzfm is simply great. I saw it first time working now, it feels way better than spacefm. You did a great job! Many thanks!

So that’s all I can tell for now, I hope this could help you. Next days I’ll try to check the remaining functions of this notebook under this beta release, one by one, and also on the athlon XP (also 32 bit) board.

Btw, antiX 19 has proven to be rock stable here, uptime of the file server in cellar running on antiX was about 100 days, before I rebooted, merely for this beta-test now.

So long
Robin

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member wildstar84]

I’ve always bought used “corporate”-grade laptops (Dell Latitude, HP Elitebooks, Lenovo Thinkpads) which are generally higher quality, easy to get parts for / repair / upgrade, etc. which are swapped out (“refreshed”) by companies looking to stay up to date with latest tech. (needed to run the latest Windows). These machines are generally 1 generation back from current, inexpensive (usually $350-600), widely available, cleaned & refurbed, usually only maybe a scuff or two on the lid, etc. I’ve found these great for Linux, easy to work on / upgrade, etc. sturdy and long lasting! Another big plus is that docking stations (I mostly use mine at my desk) are also easy to get and they usually have good matte screens, keyboards, and have both a trackpoint AND a touchpad (very handy)!